Philip Glass Quotes
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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I'm not graceful.
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Truth is a tendency.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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I've been back to the Kansas City area a lot in the past. My sisters went to college in the area. My brother went to college in the area. I've got friends there, so there's some ties to the area.
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
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When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero.
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Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.
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In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.
